re: What’s the wildest thing you’ve even seen in person

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Tiger. Vietnam.

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I took a Vietnam War class in high school that my teacher had to get permission from the state of Georgia to do. He invited all sorts of different veterans to come in and speak to our class about their different experiences. One guy that came in was in SOG operating out of Laos and Cambodia for the majority of the war. He told us this one story about when they were out in the field one evening and they set up a perimeter of claymore mines to protect their squad. In the middle of the night something tripped two mines and caused quite commotion. They found a dead tiger that had tripped the mines. One of the other guys in SOG was a Navajo Indian who proceeded to skin that tiger right then and there in the jungle and took the skin with him back to their FOB. He ended up taking the skin home with him from Vietnam and displayed it above his fireplace for the rest of his days.